PS3 has some minor NPC/player loading lag. I'll assume you guys found each other by now but the best advice I can give is to not chase around the city looking for each other. Decide upon a landmark and wait several seconds.Manifesto!!!!

An in-game heads up that you are still in the "tutorial area" would be nice.

First thing I upon logging in was send a /tell to an old friend, and I was really confused why it wasn't working! I thought the chat was just busted, or /tells weren't working in Beta, or I was typing the /tell command wrong. Spent 5 minutes at least trying different variations of /tell and /whisper before I finally gave up.

Pretty frustrating for the VERY first thing you do in a new MMO to seemingly not work.